Our client, a privately held well established multi-billion-dollar organization, is a leader in its industry and currently has a major initiative to grow its eCommerce/Online presence. The Director of eCommerce and User Experience role is an amazing opportunity to join a company that not only has a unique offering but is also expanding and growing.

The Director of eCommerce and User Experience will have significant experience working on a transactional B2C eCommerce website. They will understand how to develop a strategy to increase conversion rates, decrease bounce rates and increase time spent on website. They will also have significant hands on experience working with User Experience and the optimization of the onsite experience for consumers. Experience with re-platforming or re-designing a website is vital, as is being able to enhance onsite performance and control conversion rates.

Are you someone who excels in generating digital leads? Do you have hands on expertise in lead generation? Then look no further as we would like to speak to you on behalf of our client, a well know company in the industry who is looking to add a Director of Digital Leads to their team.

The Director of Digital Leads will be someone who has experience running digital leads. Not just someone who was part of a team that does digital lead generation, but the person responsible for creating and running digital lead campaigns. This person will be hands on in digital leads, someone who knows what it takes to roll up their sleeves and build and scale a digital lead business.

Individuals who wish to be considered will have the following:

Proven experience running Digital Leads

Deep understanding & experience with Lead Generation

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Digital Marketing with SEO/SEM

Lead Generation experience with Digital Channels such as Facebook, Google AdWords, etc.

Our client, a leading consumer goods company that is rapidly growing, is seeking an Associate Manager of Consumer Insights. In this role, the Associate Manager will serve as the voice of the consumer in meetings with senior leadership; CPG knowledge and previous consumer insight analysis skills are required. This is an exciting opportunity for a curious, passionate, and detail-oriented individual who possesses both strategic and tactical capabilities and is driven to leave their imprint on an organization.

Responsibilities include:

Conduct data analysis from primary and secondary sources and draw insights to positively impact and drive the business forward and communicate findings appropriately across the organization

Support the brand team to lead and assist management to comprehend consumers through marketing methodologies and work cross-functionally to ensure marketing strategies are rooted within consumer insights

Oversee and grow research supplier relationships and manage executional parts of the research process

Organize research on product trends within the industry and marketplace

Ideal Candidate will have:

Bachelor’s Degree and 2-5 years of experience in consumer insights analysis with a CPG background, MBA in business or market research is preferred

Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative methods with the ability to analyze a range of information and draw insights from the data leading to an understanding of consumer behavior

Ability to lead a research project with strong project management skills and show leadership capabilities while working cross-functionally in a collaborative environment

Do you have professional experience in the kitchen or front of house? Are you passionate about cooking and the culinary arts? Look no further as our client, a major food distributor, is seeking a Gourmet Food Sales Representative to drive business by maintaining existing accounts and developing new business with high-end restaurants. This is a great opportunity to sell fine food products to executive chefs in four-star restaurants. The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic individual with superb interpersonal skills and professional presentation, possesses a strong understanding of and passion for food and fine dining, and is driven, motivated by challenges, and determined to achieve excellence.

Our client is a young, fast growing, well-funded online platform designed to provide quality products with an unparalleled shopping experience. The platform has grown into a nationwide movement and hundreds of thousands of customers. The company is poised for incredible growth

We are looking for a Growth leader with a proven track record of significantly growing a business. As Director of Growth, you will be responsible for defining the company’s growth plan, coordinating and executing all growth programs, and optimizing the funnel through product decisions.

Responsibilities:

Conceptualize and create a growth strategy

Own acquisition, retention and funnel optimization of customers

Hire and manage a growth team, including Community, Social Media and Content Creation roles

Develop goals and roadmap of growth team

Implement a data-driven process to ideate and prioritize pilot projects

Manage all performance marketing across all channels, including SEM/SEO, contextual targeting, retargeting, and referral

Our client, an entrepreneurial company with a collaborative culture and great leadership team, is looking for a Purchasing Manager with experience in food manufacturing. In this role, working closely with Operations, Sales, R&D, and Finance groups, the Purchasing Manager will be responsible for commodity procurement activity including purchase order processing, supplier relationship management, developing inventory targets, strategic sourcing, supplier negotiation, and ensuring that policies and procedures are implemented.

Ideal candidates will have:

Bachelor’s degree and 3-6 years of experience in planning, procurement and scheduling in a food manufacturing environment.

Our client, a global multichannel, growing company, is looking for a Data Science leader who will be responsible for the execution of high value, enterprise analytics projects. This role requires combining visionary ideas and operational excellence. The leader has demonstrated success in evangelizing Analytics & BI on all levels of the enterprise; superb vendor relationship management.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the execution of strategic analytics projects, using advanced analytical techniques.

Use traditional statistical methodologies as well as newer techniques from computational statistics and data mining

Develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis

Use various data mining techniques and methodologies to produce the analytical solutions required to assist business stakeholders

Help create the vision for future state Analytical studies (Data Sciences) that uses advanced Analytics technologies

Partner with the Brands / Functions / GIS and Enterprise Data Management group to deliver the Analytical projects

Qualifications:

10 years of experience in executing complex analytical and statistical projects and analyses using advanced statistical modeling techniques with tools like Tableau, SPSS/SAS/R/Python/SQL/Hive etc.

Experience with Big Data platforms necessary. Demonstrated success in executing high value, strategic enterprise projects based on strategic company business direction with clear articulation of benefits, costs and risk. extensive knowledge of modeling techniques.

Superb communication, coaching and management skills across multiple business stakeholders and IT as well as external partners.

Our client, an established yet innovative consumer goods company, has a unique opportunity for someone with strong General Management skills who is also an accomplished percussionist. This role is an opportunity to run a Business Unit by leading all efforts related to general business management, product development, product management, and marketing of percussion related products and brands. This is a great opportunity to be part of the executive management team and to drive operational excellence, market share and commercial growth!

Responsibilities include:

Development of business unit strategy; P&L management and overall profitability of the entire business unit

Lead cross functional teams in new product development, marketing, and general management.

Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement throughout the business unit; serve as key voice in operational and engineering direction.

Identify market trends and tailor product development activities to capitalize on opportunities

The Director of Contact Center Operations is a leader in the customer experience team. This includes collaborating on solutions, implementing inbound and outbound multi-channel campaigns, IVR scripts, quality management, workforce management, and automation initiatives to improve KPIs and create a best in class customer experience. The individual will use critical thinking to identify strengths and weaknesses of our contact center operation from both a customer and staff perspective in order to optimize and improve inter-departmental and customer communication. The Director will help to determine priorities and implement action plans to improve and inform our contact center design and strategy. The Director will oversee and structure teams in the contact center that directly interact with and inform the Customer Experience. They will work closely with Marketing and Customer Experience Teams on the strategy and execution of customer facing contact center operations.

Essential duties:

Oversee Workforce Management including forecasting, scheduling, and real time analysis

Work with each business unit to develop the user experience as it relates to interactions within the contact center

Serve as primary contact on design and use of contact center solutions

Provide feedback to management on productivity, adherence, performance, and results

Develop long term capacity plans and provide recommendations to each business unit

Our client, a fast growing, Marketing Analytics consulting firm is looking for a Data Scientist with a strong background in Marketing Analytics. The Data Scientist role is responsible for generating data-driven insight to support marketing programs. You will be part of a strong, growing, Predictive Analytics team.

Our client, a multibillion dollar global CPG leader in the health and wellness industry, is seeking a Sr. Scientist—Skin Care to join its growing team. The Sr. Scientist should possess strong formulation skills in skin-care technology, a solid comprehension of skin physiology and product assessment methods, and the ability to manage external relationships with vendors and innovative techniques to introduce new technologies and product improvement. This is a great opportunity for an entrepreneurial scientist who is consumer-focused and has a passion for improving lives.

Ideal candidate will have:

B.S. in chemistry, biochemistry, or related scientific field

5-10 years of experience in formulation of skin-care products and possesses laboratory skills in stability studies and product assessment with experience in scale-up from lab to manufacturing

New product innovation experience and patents or publications desired

Organized team-player who can multitask successfully in a fast-paced environment

Problem-solver who has a knack for continuous improvement and possesses a strong sense of ownership and accountability

Our client, a global iconic brand, is looking for a Decision Scientist with a strong background in marketing analytics focusing on customer personalization and targeting. They are looking for a Manager of Data Science to be full-time at their headquarters.

Ideal candidate:

5+ years’ experience in Data or decision Sciences

Marketing Analytics

Experience with Machine Learning, SQL, R, Python, SAS

Big data processing techniques preferred but not required

Great communication and story-telling skills

Experience with Marketing Attribution

AWS or Azure experience

Key responsibilities:

Work with team to close gap between insights and business operations using databases and real-time analytics

Identify and understand business problems from strategy through operational impacts

Our client, a global iconic brand, is looking for a Decision Scientist with a strong background in marketing analytics focusing on customer personalization and targeting. They are looking for a Sr. Manager of Data Science to be full-time at their headquarters.

Ideal candidate

7-10 years’ experience in Data or Decision Sciences

Marketing Analytics

Experience with Machine Learning, SQL, R, Python, SAS

Big data processing techniques preferred but not required

Great communication and story-telling skills

Experience with Marketing Attribution

AWS or Azure experience

Key responsibilities

Work with team to close gap between insights and business operations using databases and real-time analytics

Identify and understand business problems from strategy through operational impacts

Design survey research studies, analyze and interpret the results on syndicated research studies that measure customer satisfaction. You will work closely with other researchers and scientists in the development of survey questions, methodologies, sampling plans and analysis plans. In addition, you will perform statistical analysis on survey data and interpret results for business users.

The outcome of your work will be used to help them understand what is important to consumers, how the brands perform relative to the competition, what the brand needs to do to improve and the financial benefit of making these improvements.

Responsibilities:

Research Design and Review: Support Best Practices in study design including survey and sample planning. Advise on study design. Create analysis plans and survey question content.

Consultation: Provide survey methods and statistical consultation to internal teams as well as external clients. Provide interpretation of study results. Provide research/analytical support for new business opportunities.

Thought leadership: Working in collaboration with other team members develop, test, interpret and present research on new and innovative approaches, methods or technicians that can we applied to the advancement of our business

Qualifications:

PhD in Psychology, Statistics or related social science fields

3 years research experience (survey design/analysis)

Travel, some overtime and weekend work is required as needed.

An advanced understanding of Multivariate Statistics, Research Design, Measurement Theory, Attitudinal Research

Statistical packages—SAS (preferred), SPSS

Must be able to work effectively and collaboratively in a team oriented, global, and multi-cultural environment.

Our client, an entrepreneurial, fast growing CPG company, is looking to add a Director of eCommerce to their growing team. This is an amazing opportunity to come in and make a huge impact on a dynamic company.

The Director of eCommerce will be someone who has proven experience of being hands on in the growth of an ecommerce business. This individual will have experience increasing the number of customers to an ecommerce website, and be able to achieve this through the creation and implementation of their own digital marketing campaigns. This individual will understand what it takes to grow a small business and have experience wearing multiple hats – startup experience would be ideal.

Individuals who wish to be considered will have the following:

Proven track record of growing an eCommerce business with a small to mid-size CPG company

Our client, a growing consumer goods manufacturer, is seeking a CFO who will work with the CEO and PE ownership to establish a financial culture of accountability and performance. This is a great opportunity to be a true business partner as a member of the company’s senior leadership team.

Knowledge of a broad array of financial areas (cost accounting, controlling, financial planning and analysis, cash flow and acquisitions) as well as use of integrated financial and accounting systems and ERP systems

Our client, a nearly $1B per year company Consumer Products Company, is looking to add a dynamic Digital Marketing Director to their team. This is an amazing opportunity to work with an established company as they bring on new products and new areas of business to their already extremely successful organization. This person will have the opportunity to set the Digital Marketing Strategy for this corporation and help bring the company into a new era.

The Director of Digital Marketing will have a minimum of ten years’ experience driving results and growth with Digital Marketing Campaigns. This person will be able to take analytical results from campaigns and turn them into action plans for future campaigns. Strong experience working with SEO, SEM, PPC and social media marketing. It is vital that this person be a great communicator and lead by example. Our client is looking for someone who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves, and be part of a collaborative, team-oriented environment.

Individuals who wish to be considered will have the following:

Minimum 10 years working with Digital Marketing campaigns with a focus on DTC

Our client is one of the fastest growing companies in the country (100% YOY growth) and is backed by three of the top investment firms globally. They are currently looking to add a highly skilled Digital Marketer, who has experience working with a top 100 internet retailer company, to their rapidly growing team. This is an amazing opportunity to work with a company that is growing at a rate of 100% a year and have a huge impact on further growth for years to come

The Director of Digital Marketing will have significant experience working with a top 100 internet retailer in the Digital Marketing space. They will have a strong background leading email marketing campaigns with proven results, and experience working with/leading Paid Search campaigns. The Director of Digital Marketing will have proven results driving growth and revenue via digital marketing channels. Our client desires someone who is a data driven marketer that has held leadership roles in the past. Any experience in Paid Social is also a plus.

Individuals who wish to be considered will have the following:

7-8 years’ experience in Digital Marketing with an internet retailer top 100 company

Experience leading successful email marketing campaigns

Proven track record leading Paid Search campaigns

Ability to use data to drive business performance, and work well with metrics and analytics

Our client, an innovative and growing consumer goods company, is seeking a Trade Marketing professional to run business operations and drive sales through drawing insights from data. This is a great opportunity for a classically-trained CPG professional who wants to positively influence an organization through decision making at the retailer.

Ideal candidate will have:

Bachelor’s degree and 7-15 years of trade marketing, finance, and brand marketing experience within a consumer products organization

Proven experience of drawing insights through syndicated data to positively influence an organization’s bottom line

Your primary focus will be supporting global automotive clients in optimizing their pricing and go-to-market strategies by leveraging proprietary data sets and predictive modeling. You will work directly with clients to optimize multi-billion dollar budgets, specifically in the areas of demand planning, market sizing, pricing and profitability, and promotion/incentives strategies. Our engagements also cover distribution, inventory optimization, remarketing and financial services in the very exciting, dynamic and complex automotive industry.

Your primary focus will be supporting global automotive clients in optimizing their pricing and go-to-market strategies by leveraging proprietary data sets and predictive modeling. You will work directly with clients to optimize multi-billion-dollar budgets, specifically in the areas of demand planning, market sizing, pricing and profitability, and promotion/incentives strategies. Engagements also cover distribution, inventory optimization, re-marketing and financial services in the very exciting, dynamic and complex automotive industry.

Our client, a global multi-billion dollar manufacturer, is seeking a strong and experienced Head of Marketing who will be responsible for the overall management of the company’s marketing function. In this role, you will develop marketing strategies, plan marketing efforts, communicate marketing plans, and build awareness and brand positioning. This is a great opportunityfor a Marketing professional with solid experience in B2B industrial marketing to put your stamp on the company and make an impact!

Our client, a consumer goods company with the number one brand in its category, is seeking a Product Developer to join its progressive and innovative team. This is a great opportunity to continually improve design and processes for the development of new and existing products within this exciting company!

Responsibilities include:

Work closely with a cross-functional team to produce innovative and cutting-edge product lines from inception to reality; create product designs that improve design image, performance and general consumer appeal.

Collaborate on the development and implementation of manufacturing processes and quality control guidelines.

Conduct collaborative research and field testing on all products; ensure that information gathered is considered in product design and development.

Review product samples and recommend changes; assist in the validation process throughout the development process and final execution.

Stay aware of market and consumer trends and habits in order to improve product performance; keep up to date with current technology.

The Senior Manager will have an active role in developing predictive models, forecasting key business metrics and building strategies for driving our business decisions and performance. Position involves working closely with key business stakeholders to understand their needs and pro-actively come up with solution to mitigate any business loss due to market fluctuation. S/he will provide financial consulting and strategic support to senior leadership, acting as the analytical engine to provide insights and support optimal business decision making. S/he understands market and business drivers and collaborates with business leaders and management to improve competitive positioning, track and trend key performance indicator metrics, and improve financial performance. This position is a people leadership role – requires leading a team of data scientist and business analyst.

Inform business leadership on expected change in market demand and subsequent impact on their business unit by analyzing current and past actuals with plans and forecasts, identifying demand trends and ‘win’ opportunities.

Leverage advanced analytics to build accurate projections and develop robust strategies out of these analysis to drive impact in to business performance

Assist in scenario analysis, developing “what-if” tools based on historical or extrapolated data to reduce business time to strategic decision

Design rich data visualizations to communicate complex ideas to business partners and leadership

Leverage story-telling skills to deliver insights that are clear, concise and actionable

Coordinate with key business stakeholders – finance team, call reps. team leads, marketing managers to deliver these information and track the progress of deliverables, revenue attribution, etc. as necessary

Enable collaboration efforts between analytics team and business units cross-functionally to drive common goal achievement and meet organizational objectives.

Minimum Qualifications:

5+ Years of practical experience in a quantitative, data-driven business environment working with data directly; positions must demonstrate increasing responsibility with at least 2 years managing people and/or processes

Master’s degree in Mathematics, Finance or quantitative Economics

Proven experience of working with complex projects from inception to completion

Ability to prove himself/herself as change champion – someone who can challenge the existing process and bring quality changes to improve it

Prior experience in demand forecasting – good understanding of context in which demand changes and ability to quantify its impact

Fast growing global company is looking for a talented Paid Search Marketing Manager. This role is highly visible with tons of exposure to the senior leadership team and a chance to put your stamp with a growing entrepreneurial company where Paid Search has a huge impact on the overall business.

Our client is looking for an individual who has managed a large Paid Search budget (ideally $1M per month). They should have at least 3-5 years hands-on experience with Paid Search since they will be managing it for the entire organization. Additionally, this individual will be Google Analytics certified or have deep experience using Google Analytics and Google AdWords. Any experience with SaaS would be a plus.

Our client, a global multichannel direct-to-consumer company, is looking for a Director Business Analytics.

Description:

You will serve as an evangelist for the power of predictive analysis and develop business cases for presentations to key stakeholders to illustrate proven successes. You will become an invaluable partner to your stakeholders and help catalyze their thinking about what’s possible. You will think broadly and creatively about the role of analytics at the company and how data can be used to help the entire company.

The role requires a leader with strong, hands-on industry experience driving a full stack analytics function: partnering with engineering to drive data enablement as part of an agile team, leading teams of data scientists tackling weighty problem and driving the development of scale able, enterprise reporting that elevates the analytics understanding of the entire company.

BrainWorks, founded in 1991, is a leading executive search firm that prides itself on delivering superior talent to drive business performance. Our consultants are experts in their practice areas, which include CRM, Direct / Database Marketing and Customer Sciences / Advanced Analytics.

The Relationship Marketing and Decision Sciences Practice Group places top performing candidates, from mid-level managers to C-level executives, with companies spanning from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500’s. Some of the business areas in which these candidates specialize include the following: Statistical Modeling, Advanced Analytics, Web Analytics, Digital Analytics, Customer Analytics, and Campaign Management.

When you partner with BrainWorks you will receive industry expertise coupled with quality, speed and results guaranteeing a great hire. We look forward to having the opportunity to work with you. http://www.brainworksinc.com.

Are you a coffee technical expert? Our client, a global leader in the CPG industry, is seeking an R&D Manager who will lead and drive product innovation for the coffee category. In this role, the Manager will drive formula design, shelf stability studies, ingredient selection, roasting profiling and commercial scalability.

Ideal candidates will have:

Bachelor’s degree (Food Science, Agricultural Science, or similar) and 5+ years of R&D experience in the coffee category.

Experience in coffee cupping/tasting

Understanding of coffee chemistry (compounds, flavors, etc.), as well as grinding and extraction methods

Our client is a privately held marketing data and technology consulting firm. They are seeking a full-time Marketing Analyst to be based with one of their clients in Union, NJ. The Marketing Analyst will oversee executing omni-channel marketing campaign and collaborating with the team.

Our client, a fast-growing consumer products manufacturer is looking for a seasoned HR Executive to lead them to the next level. This is an exciting opportunity to put HR Best Practices to work and to partner with the CEO and the Executive Team in shaping the future as this company continues to have leading market share.

Help recruit and define the best talent acquisition strategies.

Help the client’s multiple site manufacturing become more world class by creating programs that foster employee engagement, morale, and teamwork.

Create programs to perpetuate and enhance the commitment to employees and the value they bring to the organization.

Ideal candidates will have:

Strong knowledge of manufacturing is a must.

FDA experience is a strong plus.

Experience in the creation and implementation of programs that further Organizational and Leadership Development.